Workshop Series: Building Digital Archives & Storytelling with CollectionBuilder
Workshop Series: Building Digital Archives & Storytelling with CollectionBuilder In-Person / Online
Building Digital Archives with CollectionBuilder
In this 3-week workshop series you will learn how to create a digital archive website using CollectionBuilder, a template built using free, open-source software. The series will cover web development and methodologies for working with digital images and documents. You’ll learn the technical skills required to build a digital humanities project and tell interpretive stories using digital special collections.
This workshop series is appropriate for anyone who wants to learn to build their own digital humanities project that centers storytelling with digital collections, whether for a class or grant project. You should be comfortable learning new things, but no prior experience with web design and working with data is required.
What do you need to know and do before the workshop?
- Workshop materials will be provided.
- You do not need to bring your own digital collections materials.
- No experience is required.
- This workshop will be remote and offered over Zoom.
This workshop series was sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and developed in partnership with the University of Idaho Libraries.
- Dates & Times:
- 3:00pm - 4:30pm, Friday, April 15, 2022
3:00pm - 4:30pm, Friday, April 29, 2022
3:00pm - 4:30pm, Friday, May 6, 2022
- Time Zone:
- Pacific Time - US & Canada (change)
- Campus:
- Knight Library
- Categories:
- DREAM Lab Version Control Workshop
Week 1: Building a Digital Archive using CollectionBuilder
During this workshop, we will explore what CollectionBuilder as a platform is good for — making digital collections publicly available online. You will learn how to make a free GitHub account and begin interacting with the digital collections platform. You will learn how to upload digital collections into your CollectionBuilder site and gain experience with the very basics of working with metadata. By the end of the session, you will have a live digital collection available to show anyone in the world!
Week 2: Using Markdown with CollectionBuilder
This is the second workshop of the “Digital Collections & Storytelling with CollectionBuilder”. No experience is required, but if you missed the first session, please set up a one hour meeting with Gabriele Hayden to go over the material you missed.
During this workshop, you will learn how to write text using markdown to create web pages. We will explore how CollectionBuilder uses Jekyll to "translate" our markdown into HTML. By the end of the session, you will have created and modified the text of your website.
Week 3: Customizing your CollectionBuilder Project
This is the third workshop of the “Digital Collections & Storytelling with CollectionBuilder”. No experience is required, but if you missed the first two sessions, please set up a one hour meetings with Gabriele Hayden to go over the material you missed.
During this workshop, you will learn how to customize your CollectionBuilder website.
